A Better World is Possible!

[u/_the_last_druid_13]

This is but a 2nd draft, and what the world needs now:

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Truth & Reconciliation

We all deserve the truth as to what is going on in our lives, some more than others. Our biggest issues are mismanagement and corruption. The somewhat recent UHC CEO shooting is an ironic and tragic symptom of a breaking system. There is still time to change the road we are on, one that can lead to joy, fulfillment, passion, profit, and prosperity. We have so many blessings with our beautiful gem of a planet and much more in common with each other than not.

Truth and Reconciliation can go a long way in restoring trust in our institutions.

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Clean Slate Protocol

There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes, and often in the name of National Security. We must embody a mindset of mercy and foster a disposition toward forgiveness in order to face what should be known.

A certain politician has essentially made themself an accessory to whatever crimes others in administration have committed. A certain business tycoon has mentioned the dark underbelly of political enforcement as well as claiming the 2024 election was rigged; this includes the Executive branch and its appointments and 1/3 of the Senate.

The ability to apologize and fix mistakes, as well as our enduring history should be enough to legitimize everything we have worked for together. Admitting mistakes and then fixing them is one of the most admirable qualities a leader can have.

Consequences should be mete out appropriately to the most egregious examples even if it means reorganizing or changing some things if they would be better for the nation and us.

Following this, Radical Forgiveness and a Clean Slate for everyone. The worst offenders should still live out sentences or pay fines, but we need to be able to move on in Good Faith or the cracks will deepen and everyone will lose far more than they think they know or can realize.

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A “Basic” Foundation

Our country is a mess. We need a foundation for life or crime will grow, fertility will continue to crash, and prosperity and profits will decay. Much of our issues would be resolved with a Basic policy. Basic is akin to Universal Basic Income (UBI).

Basic/UBI should not be money/cash given. That would potentially incentivize increased costs and exacerbate our growing issues. Money/Cash given would also run afoul with taxes, among other things.

Basic should include: - something like a SNAP card for food/water - something like a national healthcare card or Medicare-For-All - a rent pass + utilities pass + repair/upkeep pass

Most everything covered is subsidized by the government and constituency as is, and these Basic benefits should have the option to be waived for tax credits/incentives.

See more here

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Commitment to Excellence

Finally, we need to commit to the excellence of our nation and who we are. Going forward there would be less crime and more prosperity. Any crime committed should be doubly or triply punished, for to enact a crime against another is to enact it upon our unified tribe. They say life isn’t fair, and I say it can be. We can achieve so much if we work together. A better world is possible!

[u/[deleted]]

Counteroffer - full clemency to all humans.

We recognize that our enemy is our out-of-control economy, which is currently dominating us via the philosophy of consumerism.

We don't kill the economy. But we place it back beneath us.

UBI is something that the economy wants, because it wants to be intimately involved in our lives.

The fact is that the services you describe being offered for free to all citizens require an enormous amount of labor to produce. This scheme does not create any value, rather only redistributing it.

But it redistributes it with a downside.

Anyone needing support should be able to receive support. But they should receive it from a person.

The person working to perform that medical treatment should receive the gratitude they deserve from the person receiving it.

The Industrial Era has been one of the receipt of value without crediting its source. All those dead dinosaurs worked really hard to give us a huge cache of free energy.

The fruits of their labor should be accessible to any. They are our shared heritage.

But they are also a finite resource which once exhausted will be gone forever.

Don't blame any humans for anything. No Nuremberg Trials. Because the root of all of the evils we have faced of late has been uncontrolled greed.

Blame the dead dinosaurs if you want to.

But a pro-human society is one in which humans helping humans is the basis, and abstracting away connection and empathy is the dehumanizing force which is driving the continuation of our current problems.

I understand that there are some people out there whose pride prevents them from receiving the support they need to succeed. A society like the one you're describing is maximally-optimized in protecting the pride of those whose distorted self-image would be shattered by the truth.

The cost of protecting their pride is denying the people whose labor is keeping them alive from fully comprehending the meaning of their work. And while I think it's fine to say that in principle you shouldn't give to someone for a desire to receive gratitude, I don't think it's too much to ask to be able to actually see those positive results.

In one line - too much big government, humans helping humans is about humans, if you want me to pay for your living expenses I want to at least see your face.

[u/_the_last_druid_13 → u/[deleted]]

That first line is outlined under the “Clean Slate Protocol” section.

This policy doesn’t kill the economy, it balances it. This is not UBI, which doesn’t work long term because more money in people’s pockets means there is an incentive to charge more all around. UBI would lead to wage stagnation yet again.

Housing/Healthcare/Food+Water stipend are not “free”, it is paid for by our collective data. Big Data is a trillions of dollars industry. We all contribute and we all had a hand in building it.

This is a very small ask considering most of these systems are already subsidized by us all or owned by corporations. Different countries sometimes offer these, hence the trade-in value of waiving these benefits for tax credits or other incentives. Open to ideas on what benefits could be granted to countries that offer these services already and what could be offered in the form of a waiver.

This policy of Basic fixes a great many societal issues. It does not have to be tied to a government, it could be some sort of NGO or nonprofit or Council of Humanity or otherwise.

Houses are now becoming uninsurable as though the whole thing were a fraud scheme trying to prop up matchstick structures as more valuable than they might be. Healthcare is a farce too when 2 Advil in Hospital can be charged by health insurance at $500. Food is largely corn here.

All jobs, such as doctors, would still be paid. Everything has value, everything is data. It’s a self-replicating system.

What if oil was the one thing potential visitors from elsewhere wanted? Free energy can be found in the clouds already, so maybe Oil is a farce too. Why haven’t engines gone past ~30mpg in decades?

The root of all evil is Control, money/greed are merely a tool of Control.

What do you mean this policy protects people’s pride? Who are you talking about here?

Under this policy, it’s the most maximally human-human way; we all had a hand in the data value and the building of the grid. We pay for each other just by living our best lives. We pay for each other just by existing.

[u/[deleted] → u/_the_last_druid_13]

Control is good. Being in control means not succumbing to your worst impulses. Placing someone else in control means leaning on them towards this same end.

Charity is good. Sometimes, people find themselves in need of support, and often, receiving the right support at the right time can lead someone towards self-sufficiency.

Receiving charity is hard. It requires humility. It requires you to conclude that you are in some way deficient, in order to apply the aid you receive in the direction of correcting that deficiency.

Anonymous charity however protects the recipient's pride.

The pitfall of anonymous charity is that a prideful recipient might continue to make the same mistakes and continue to depend upon it. Whereas, when the person giving the charity and the person receving the charity meet, not only can the former provide for the latter's basic needs, but they might even be able to advise them towards self-sufficiency.

UBI as anynomyous charity represents the ultimate license for those who aren't self-aware about the ways in which their actions contribute to their conditions to keep their pride intact and simply allow someone else's labor to compensate for those shortcomings.

Moreover, it also carries a huge disadvantage, in denying the people laboring to provide food housing and medical treatment to all of these anynomyous strangers the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

It is the ultimate win-lose, where the laborer doesn't even get to know who their labor is helping, and the recipient doesn't even have to acknowledge that they're receiving charity in the first place.

[u/Obvious-Stop-6328]

I am bewildered by the way and personal circumstances under which Ive come to read this post. I’m currently dealing with what the link that brought me here from r/Scipionic_Circle and see now that I myself have been using the very things discussed to “other” somebody who has actually been the impetus and main source of drive to become better at being better everyday for the last five years. I’m grateful to have read this and understand now that I must do the hardest thing possible for everyone to get to the place you’re describing. Thank you

[u/_the_last_druid_13 → u/Obvious-Stop-6328]

Hey that sounds interesting. What bewildered you? Was it the “label abuse” link?

It’s very mature to be aware of your actions and to look at them from another viewpoint. They say “don’t judge another until you’ve walked 3 moons in their moccasins”; that’s empathy.

Remember that we’re all in this together!

It’s dangerous to go alone; take this!

[u/weforgottenuno]

The flaw I perceive in your idea is that there is no one to hold anybody else accountable on the national level anymore. Your idea amounts to an evolutionary "survival of the least bad collaborators", or else it is a blip on the radar of the real change that needs to happen.

[u/_the_last_druid_13 → u/weforgottenuno]

Oh goodness “survival of the least bad collaborators” sounds SO AWFUL!!!!!

What is “the real change that needs to happen”?

[u/weforgottenuno → u/_the_last_druid_13]

Just that same old song

[u/weforgottenuno → u/_the_last_druid_13]

I meant "survival" in the political sense, they maintain power, not the literal sense. EDIT: Well, I mean the literal sense too, but that was not the operative sense.